Patience

Next stop Patience…somehow I would hope if I have Love, Joy and Peace that certainly I would have patience. As a mom however, patience seems like the one thing I run the lowest on for most of my days. I set little bench markers of hope where I think if I make it to this point all will be well.

So basically when all the kids are four and older, there will be no more diapers and pull ups to manage and they will all be potty trained; when all the kids are six and older there will be no more daycare, preschool or half day kindergarten to worry about and all will be well. I don’t know that it takes a Christian to get through these things but most definitely I know the bible tells me all these great things about patience so surely, patience counts for something.

I know that the rules and the expectations change, what else will I have to manage with patience after age 6? Oh, please don’t tell me for I know worry will abound, especially with my oldest at eleven. I suppose worry is a bad word for Christians and after having three girls, worry soon becomes in low supply after one has broken some teeth on a skateboard, and another is always running this way and that into danger.

So maybe the waning of worry is actually a sign of better things to a stretched out mom. At some point maybe patience wins out, is it that point where others around us look at us as if we are crazy while we calmly hold a screaming boo-boo’d up child. Is it the point where we could just collapse if not for the fact that some little person needs us more?

Is that what it is to God? Are we boo-boo’d up and screaming and there is nothing less than he can give us than all of his love and patience?

Oh if I could have that for people every day of the week.

Do you have an ongoing struggle with patience? How do you overcome being short of patience?